Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. 1910
"Analytic Cubism resembles the actual process of perception. When we look at an object, we are likely to examine it from various points of view and reassemble our glances into a whole object in our brain. Picasso and Braque shattered their subjects into jagged forms analogous to momentary, partial, glances, but then reassembled the pieces to communicate meaning rather than to represent observed reality." Stokstad and Cothren, ed. 5, p. 1025 So, theoretically, this is evoking or representing the way we look at things. But at least as strongly, it also evokes the act of fragmentation, a kind of violence.
Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. 1910
"Analytic Cubism resembles the actual process of perception. When we look at an object, we are likely to examine it from various points of view and reassemble our glances into a whole object in our brain. Picasso and Braque shattered their subjects into jagged forms analogous to momentary, partial, glances, but then reassembled the pieces to communicate meaning rather than to represent observed reality." Stokstad and Cothren, ed. 5, p. 1025 So, theoretically, this is evoking or representing the way we look at things. But at least as strongly, it also evokes the act of fragmentation, a kind of violence.